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Word entry · 5 letters

flesh

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"Body tissue"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /flɛʃ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted efhlsStarts with FEnds with H1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture

Word origin

From Middle English flesh, flesch, flæsch, from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”).

Used in a sentence

  • Chicken is already the most popular meat in the US, and is projected to be the planet’s favourite flesh by 2020.
  • And the preaſt ſhall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his fleſh, and take awaye the aſſhes whiche the fire of the burntſacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them beſyde the alter, […]
  • For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glory of man as the flowre of grasse: the grasse withereth, and the flowre thereof falleth away.

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